Cable-clip



PATENTED JAN. 19, 1904.

0. C. HOFFMANN.

CABLE CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. a, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented January 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO O. HOFFMANN, OF, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR o. FREDR O GREER, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1

CABLE-CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 749,989, datedJanuary-19, 1904.

Application filed December 8, 1902. Serial No. 134,357. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, OTTO C. HOFFMANN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Clips, of whichthe following is a specification.

One of the objects of this invention is the production of an improvedcable-clip for connecting electric cables to their supportingwires.

A further object is the provision of means for locking the clip to itssupporting-wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of acable-clip embodying my invention, showing the clip ready to be appliedto an electric cable. Fig. 2 is aview showing the cable-clip in sideelevation and an electric cable in transverse section. The clip isrepresented in this view as partially applied to a cable. Fig. 3 is aview similar to the last preceding figure, showing the clip in positionand looked upon the supporting-wire, which latter and the cable arerepresented in cross-section.

In the embodiment herein shown of my invention I provide asuspension-hook member A, formed from a single piece of wire, the middleof which constitutes a base-bar A. From the base bar the two ends of thewire are bent at a right angle, extending upward and curving slightlyrearward from said basebar. the side wires are bent in return-loops,forming the hooks proper, the ends of which hooks are bent inward andabut to form a lockingbar A A little way above the base-bar A a wire iswound about the two opposite sides of the hook, forming the twocross-bars A and A. The clip is completed for the market by passing theend of the band B, formed, preferably, of sheet metal, around thebasebar A and bending said band in the loop B to encircle said base-bar.

C represents an electric cable, and D a supporting-wire therefor.

In its application the clip is held in a horizontal position above thecable to which it is At a little distance above the base-bar to beattached and the band B wrapped around said cable to encircle it. Thefree end of the band is then inserted (from right to left, Fig. 2)between the cross-bars A and A and bent over the latter and downwardagainst the body of the band B, Fig. 2. The hook A is now raised into avertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, moving the opposite ends of theband B in contrary directions and causing said band to hug the cabletightly. When it is desirable to lock the cable upon the supportingwireD, the end of the band B is thrust forward (from left to right, Fig. 2)between said supporting-wire and the locking-bar A and bent around saidlocking-bar in the loop B, the end of said band lying against the underside of the intermediate portion of the band that passes from thecross-bar A to the locking-bar A The end of the band at theloop B isheld firmly against the cable by the grip of the band upon the cable.The outer end of the band B, as hereinbefore explained, is held by theengagement of the loop B with the cross-bar A or the locking-bar A It isclear that the hook A might be made of other material than wire and bycasting or punching instead ofby bending. and that various other slightchanges might be resorted to in the production of this cable-clipwithout departing from the spirit of my invention; wherefore I desire tohave it understood that I do not limit myself to the construction hereinshown and described.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a cable-clip, a suspension-hook memberhaving a curved hook portion, a base-bar near one end, a locking-barnear the extremity of the curved hook portion, and a crossbarintermediate the base-bar and the lockingbar; in combination withaflexible band looped around the base-bar, over the cross-bar, andaround the locking-bar.

2. In a cable-clip, a suspension-hook member having a curved hookportion, a base-bar near one end, and a two-part cross-bar consisting ofa loop of wire bent around the sides of the hook member; in combinationwith a flexible band looped around the base-bar near one of its ends andover one of said cross-bars and beneath and around the other of saidcrossbars.

3. A suspension-hook member for cableclips, having a curved hookportion, a basebar at its lower end, a locking-bar at the outerextremity of the curved hook portion, and a cross-bar intermediate thebase-bar and the locking-bar.

4:. A suspension-hook member for cableclips, having a curved hookportion, a basebar at its lower end, a looking-bar at the outerextremity of the curved hook portion, and a two-part cross-barintermediate the base-bar and the locking-bar.

5. A suspension-hook member for cableolips, formed of Wire, the middleportion of Which constitutes a base-bar, said hook memher having tWoside portions bent substantially at a right angle to said base-bar, acurved hook portion at the upper end of each side portion, a locking-barformed by the inturned ends of the curved hook portion, and a two-partcrossbar consisting, of a second Wire wrapped around said side portions.

OTTO C. HOFFMANN.

Witnesses:

L. L. MILLER, GEO. L. CHINDAHL.

